Systems Modeling & Simulation Community Meeting

SSP Standards, Terminology Updates, and Community Insights – SMS Community Meeting at IW25

Monday 3 February 2025 | Online

07:00 (Los Angeles) | 10:00 (New York)
15:00 (London) | 16:00 (Berlin)

Extended SMS Community meeting #70 – February 2025 - during the INCOSE International Workshop IW ‘25

This is a bit earlier in the day than usual as it is being held as part of the annual INCOSE International Workshop (IW25). This meeting will be a hybrid SMS community meeting with a 2-hour duration. The meeting will remain open for any SMS community members to join online.

Agenda

  • Welcome & Introductions: - Peter Coleman & Frank Popielas - SMSWG Chair & Vice Chair
  • O​verview of SMSWG activities - Peter Coleman, SMSWG Chair
  • U​pdate of focus teams activities including "Refining the understanding of SMS" - Alex Busch
  • Presentation Topic: "Overview of the System Structure and Parameterization (SSP) and the SSP Traceability Layered Standard" - Presenter: Hubertus Tummescheit

    • The System Structure and Parameterization (SSP) Standard version 1 has been released in 2019 to capture the evolution of a hierarchical complex system model and its variants. The subsystems can be any model type with defined input-output interfaces but are typically models in either the Functional-Mockup-Interface (FMI) Standard, or, now in Version 2.0, using the Modelica Language. In systems engineering terms, the SSP standard is a formalized, executable Interface Control Document (ICD) for the system model. It thus forms the basis for model verification and verification of such system models. Adoption has been fastest in the Automotive industry, mostly due to the strong need for formal supplier-OEM collaboration including the exchange of executable models.

    SSP also offers “Layered Standards”, to add documentation, model reports and process artifacts in a standardized, but flexible and extensible manner.

    In this session, we will present the SSP-standard and its use cases, and the SSP-Traceability Layered standard that adds traceability metadata to an SSP-based model. Finally, we will demonstrate an example model in SSP using the EasySSP cloud-based tool.

  • "​SMS Terms & Definitions update" - Presenter: Greg Garstecki
  • U​pdates on the activities of the Terms & Definitions team.
  • G​athering terms through interactive discussion.
  • L​ooking for alignment across different sources (The team has established a good relationship with the SEBoK team from INCOSE as one of the main sources.
  • Q&A/Discussion - All



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